Before walking onto the court, Alexandr Dolgopolov acknowledged to himself that he was lacking confidence. An injured right knee and losing three consecutive matches, including one in the Australian Open, made Dolgopolov nervous Monday during the first...

In Sunrise this past weekend (Sept. 12-14), Israel led its BNP Paribas Davis Cup 2015 seeding tie against Argentina 2-1 after Saturday's play, but dropped both singles matches on Sunday to lose, 3-2.
The tie was held at the Sunrise Tennis Center —...

Like the mailmen, Serena Williams and Novak Djokovic went about their appointed rounds with efficient delivery at the U.S. Open tennis tournament here Monday.
It was Labor Day, and many of the players, fighting through physical distress in the heat...

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Game, set, match goes to the city of Sunrise, which beat out Delray Beach and a few other sites to host the upcoming Davis Cup event between Israel and Argentina.
The International Tennis Federation, the ruling body over Davis Cup, wouldn't allow Israel to host the World Group relegation tie in Tel Aviv from Sept. 12-14 because of the country's ongoing conflict with Hamas.
Pavel Lisovtsev, the deputy director of the Israel Tennis Association, visited the Sunrise Tennis Club on Sunday and the Delray...

When a gimpy Andy Ram stepped to the line to serve for the pivotal match of Israel's Davis Cup confrontation with the heavily favored Argentines, he tried to block out that it would be for the final time of his storied doubles career playing alongside his best friend, Jonathan Erlich.
Unable to place any pressure on a strained calf muscle that popped at 4-2 of the fifth set, Erlich told Ram to just focus on getting his first serves in, no matter how soft, and he would do the rest at net.
As the...

Brad Keselowski used a three-wide pass of Kyle Larson and Kevin Harvick to win the opening race of the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship Sunday at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill. The victory automatically advances Keselowski into the second round of the 10-race Chase, which will eliminate four drivers every third race under NASCAR's new format.
As Larson and Harvick staged a hold-your-breath, side-by-side race for the lead following a restart with 19 laps remaining, Keselowski, who opened the...

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Israel's Davis Cup rookie Bar Botzer was sitting in the makeshift locker room at the Sunrise Tennis Club watching his country's top player Dudi Sela get wiped off the court by Argentina's Leonardo Mayer in Sunday's first singles match, knowing that his nation's hopes of returning to the World Group bracket next year would be up to him.
It was simply too much to ask of a 20-year-old fledgling professional ranked 776th in the world, one who is still in the Israeli army and who before this weekend's...

At a rail-thin 5-foot-9, Dudi Sela, Israel's top-ranked player has assumed the David and Goliath role before, so he knows what his overmatched Davis Cup squad is up against in this weekend's World Group playoff against mighty Argentina at the Sunrise Tennis Club.
Just this summer, the 84th-ranked Sela reached his second career ATP final in Atlanta but fell in straight sets to America's Davis Cup stalwart, the 6-foot-10 John Isner. In his two previous tournament stops in Bogota and Newport, R.I., Sela,...

I spoke to Vincent Trocheck yesterday and again today about his chances of making the Panthers out of training camp, and today we met with two other top prospects in Aaron Ekblad, the overall No. 1 draft pick last June, and pint-sized dynamo Rocco Grimaldi, who joined 26 prospects at the BB&T Center for physicals.
Here are some excerpts from Grimaldi's interview. I'll give you Ekblad tomorrow after practice.
Grimaldi on first pro contract:
"It's excitng because you think about when you wanted...